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by pmeira 1460 days ago
Another benefit that is often overlooked is that Parquet support various compression methods, right? SQLite's official support for compression is a commercial product, so basically useless for general usage in free open-source software. There are a few 3rd party alternatives, but it becomes cumbersome.

Considering DuckDB's and Parquet's features, if DuckDB manages to support the emerging GeoParquet standard someday, I believe it could be a nice alternative to the typical SQLite + Spatialite combo, and GeoPackage as a whole.